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December 30, 2004
Your own SMTP server
Taking charge of SMTP is surprisingly easy, thanks to a wonderful piece of freeware called PostCast Server.
PostCast Server, with remarkably little effort on your part, takes over the role of your ISP’s SMTP server. It turns your PC into an SMTP server which works with any email client and any Internet connection. It runs on all versions of Windows and works on both LANs and on standalone PCs.
To understand what PostCast Server does, consider how sending email usually works:
When you create an email and click the Send button, your email does not go directly from your computer to the recipient’s. Instead, it is first delivered to the outgoing mail server, that is, the SMTP server, of your ISP. That mail server shunts it to the incoming mail server of the recipient’s ISP. It is then routed to the recipient. So the whole process involves four major components:
1. Your email program, known as an email client.
2. Your ISP’s SMTP mail server.
3. The recipient’s POP or IMAP mail server.
4. The recipient’s email client.
With PostCast Server installed, you do away with #2 entirely.
The great thing about PostCast Server is it is so simple to install and set up all that’s required on your part is a knowledge of how to access your email program’s account settings.
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Posted by Jon at December 30, 2004 11:54 PM